Thursday, April 12, 2007

NASA's New Moon Robot: Dig It!





When we finally make it back to the moon, it would be nice if some air and water were waiting for us. That's the goal of this digger bot, built by Lockheed Martin as part of NASA's PILOT (Precursor In-situ Lunar Oxygen Testbed) program. It will use a bucket-wheel, cameras and laser rangefinders to scoop up oxygen-rich lunar soil and autonomously carry it to a processing plant. The extracted oxygen would be used for air or combined with hydrogen to produce water.

(Via Communist Robot.)

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